{"id":28485,"date":"2014-06-05T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=28485"},"modified":"2014-06-05T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T21:31:20","slug":"these-congress-delegates-made-good-use-of-their-brock-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/06\/these-congress-delegates-made-good-use-of-their-brock-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"These Congress delegates made good use of their Brock surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In their video, PHETE members take full advantage of being in a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.<\/p><\/div>\n

When Congress 2014 came to Brock University during the final week of May, it brought thousands of people to a campus that’s located in a UNESCO-protected biosphere, with significant ties to the indigenous peoples of this territory.\u00a0 Brock is a place where one can be in a Carolinian forest or on the Bruce Trail without leaving the campus.<\/p>\n

So on Saturday May 24, just as the Congress schedule of events was getting started, some 20 members of the group Physical and Health Education Teacher Educators (PHETE) spent a half-day walking, talking and holding sessions in some of the spaces and places that make Brock unique.<\/p>\n

It led to, among other things, a high-energy video<\/a> produced by University of Victoria Professor Tim Hopper, that has now turned up on YouTube.<\/p>\n

“In keeping with the 2013 PHETE pre-conference sensibility,” said Brock physical education and kinesiology Professor Maureen Connolly, “we invited proposals for experiential sessions related to four broadly interpreted contexts: Forest and Trail Walk and Talk; Dance, Drum and Rhythm; (Re) Orient\/eer\/ing, and Playing with Fire.”<\/p>\n

Connolly calls the video “a compressed expression” of the group’s time together.<\/p>\n

“We were fortunate to have an array of outdoor and indoor spaces and places: forest, trails, fire-pit, studios, big and small, vast and intimate, and an equally tantalizing array of proposed sessions, from contact improv, to orienteering with a twist to Tai Chi at the fire pit.<\/p>\n

“We were delighted to facilitate those interested in offering sessions within the broad contexts indicated.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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